Sentences with phrase «growing social pressure»

There is growing social pressure to go vegetarian or vegan for environmental reasons.

• Cooperating with Beijing to develop social services in China as the country faces growing social pressures to bridge the rural - urban divide and appease a burgeoning middle class.

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Due to growing pressures from short - term shareholders and increasing regulations, companies have been severely constrained in making targeted, long - term investments that drive social change.

Borrowing by students and their families has picked up steam over the years as social and economic pressure grows to obtain a college education to get ahead, even as states reduce their financial support for colleges and colleges raise their tuition.

Those discussions, which have been pushed by Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, have been taking place since the beginning of the year, said sources, as the social communications giant has faced increasing pressure from Wall Street to grow its audience and innovate its products.

«In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother's first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.»

Council leaders are disappointed that the white paper does not address the reality of the current and growing funding crisis in adult social care and the subsequent huge financial pressures councils face.

In addition to social pressure, this pushes some mothers to purchase human breast milk on the internet — a market that has been growing rapidly.

Every corporate employee encounters stress due to various reasons such as growing competition, the urge to be the best, peer pressure, social pressure, etc..

While traditional online dating sites let singles search for The One in a mostly solitary endeavor, Tandem is one of a growing number of Internet matchmaking sites like Circl.es and Acquaintable trying to make online dating a little more like it is offline: a social experience with more face - to - face interactions and less pressure to find a soul mate in every stranger.

As social pressures on cities mount and the Federal financing share of urban education drops (from 12 percent in 1980 to 9 percent today), many parents say their search for a trustworthy city school is growing more frantic.

The world's largest social media network is under growing pressure from governments, investors and advertisers.

The second birth cohort analysis divided the subjects into those born between 1902 and 1959 and 1960 and 1976; the younger birth cohort grew up after the surgeon general's warning against smoking and also faced intense social pressures not to smoke.

With social pressures growing rapidly in our culture it is more and more common for people to develop an eating disorder.

A growing body of research has shown that adolescent girls in the context of affluence face a series of unique pressures that may increase social - emotional problems.